• July 14 2025
  Obituary

  Muhammadu Buhari, former Nigerian president, 1942-2025

  Ex-junta ruler embodied country’s transition from authoritarian state to modern democracy

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• July 13 2025
  Nigeria

  Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari dies

  Ex-junta leader oversaw a period of increasing insecurity in west African state during his two presidential terms

  
• September 26 2023
  Nigeria

  Nigeria’s Senate confirms new central bank governor amid currency rout

  Former Citi executive Olayemi Cardoso faces task of stabilising naira and settling $6.8bn foreign exchange obligations

  
• May 8 2023
  Ayisha Osori

  As Buhari prepares to depart, Nigeria is in desperate need of serious reform

  The president leaves behind him greater insecurity, rising debt and a mismanaged election

  
• January 12 2023
  Central banks

  Nigeria’s $53bn wayward means

  What’s a few naira between friends?

  
• October 5 2022
  African economy

  The west must return Africa’s stolen assets, as well as its artefacts

  Waiting for unspecified ‘progress’ to be achieved before releasing funds looted by corrupt former leaders is unconscionable

  
• August 11 2022
  ExxonMobil

  Nigeria’s president drops support for ExxonMobil deal

  Sudden reversal comes just three days after president approves sale of the oil company’s Niger Delta business

  
• March 3 2022
  War in Ukraine

  Foreign students report discrimination at Ukraine’s borders

  UNHCR and Nigerian president condemn racism as people of colour flee war

  
• January 27 2022
  News in-depthNigeria

  ‘Godfather’ of Lagos aims to become Nigeria’s next president

  Bola Ahmed Tinubu shaped the megacity but has been dogged by allegations of corruption

  
• January 12 2022
  Nigeria

  Nigeria lifts Twitter ban after company agrees to conditions

  Social platform was banned after post by president threatening violent repression was taken down

  
• September 6 2021
  Nigeria

  ‘Dramatic’ Nigerian oil reforms hit slow start

  Implementation under president Muhammadu Buhari could take years, critics warn

  
• August 15 2021
  Terrorism

  Muhammadu Buhari: Africa needs more than US military aid to defeat terror

  Building infrastructure, connecting remote regions and providing jobs will strengthen the continent’s defences

  
• June 7 2021
  Nigeria

  Nigeria’s ‘authoritarian’ Twitter ban decried by activists and west

  Government ire comes after anti-police protests last year were discussed on social media platform

  
• June 2 2021
  Nigeria

  Twitter removes post by Nigeria’s president threatening violence

  Muhammadu Buhari references country’s civil war in warning of a crackdown on unrest

  
• April 26 2021
  The Big Read

  Why ‘the kidnapping industry is thriving’ in Nigeria

  Unemployment, underfunded security forces and access to guns have combined to produce record numbers of abductions

  
• January 26 2021
  Nigeria

  Nigeria’s Buhari overhauls military as security crisis worsens

  Swiftly deteriorating situation in Africa’s most populous country forces president to replace four heads of armed forces

  
• December 18 2020
  Nigeria

  Hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys released

  Islamist group Boko Haram claims credit for attack as president says more needs to be done to improve security

  
• December 13 2020
  Nigeria

  Nigeria school kidnapping puts Buhari security record in spotlight

  President is losing battle against rampant lawlessness and violence, say critics

  
• October 23 2020
  Person in the News

  Muhammadu Buhari: Nigeria’s leader remains aloof

  The president known as ‘Baba Go Slow’ has avoided addressing criticism of a violent crackdown

  
• October 23 2020
  Nigeria

  ‘It was carnage’: Nigeria reels from bullets and brutality of protest crackdown

  Peaceful demonstrations in Lagos end in violence and reports of 10 dead

  
• October 21 2020
  Kingsley Moghalu

  A brutal crackdown in Nigeria exposes weakness at the top

  Protests against police violence and poor governance show young people have found a powerful voice

  
• October 20 2020
  Nigeria

  Nigeria cracks down on peaceful protesters

  Reports of shooting by security forces in Africa’s biggest city as demonstrators dig in

  
• October 15 2020
  News in-depthNigeria

  Youth of Nigeria force Buhari’s hand as anger at police brutality boils over

  Protesters vow to continue campaign amid global focus on Black Lives Matter

  
• September 9 2020
  David Pilling

  What the campaign to eradicate polio tells us about Covid-19

  Africa’s recent success helps position the continent to tackle coronavirus

  
• April 24 2020
  ObituaryAbba Kyari

  Abba Kyari, chief of staff to the president of Nigeria, 1952-2020

  A self-effacing intellectual who rose to the very centre of power